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Dec 1, 2023Liked by Santa Barbara Current

Nice work Henry, the long view always disarms the left's arguments on climate events. If they would only read! But it seems true the left has made a well paying industry out of climate. As if all these kids coming out of college with environmental degrees need something to do, so the lefty government machine invented all these useless 'jobs' to keep the kids from rioting. T Cole

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Dec 2, 2023Liked by Santa Barbara Current

all good angles Henry, [they] have been lying to us for decades…climate change is just another grift and the latest vehicle used by the overlords to gain more control and convert to communism…

"For those that missed it, let's Recap:

1966: Oil Gone in Ten Years

1967: Dire Famine Forecast By 1975

1968: Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide

1969: Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989

1970: World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources by 2000

1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985

1970: Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable

1970: Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish

1970s: Killer Bees!

1970: Ice Age By 2000

1970: America Subiect to Water Rationing by 1974 and Food Rationing By

1980

1971: New Ice Age Coming By 2020 or 2030

1972: New Ice Age By 2070

1972: Oil Depleted in 20 Years

1974: Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast

1974: Another Ice Age?

1974: Ozone Depletion a 'Great Peril to Life

1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent

1977: Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 90s

1978: No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend

1980: Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes

1980: Peak Oil In 2000

1988: Regional Droughts (that never happened) in 1990s

1988: Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record Highs

1988: Maldive Islands will Be Underwater by 2018 (they're not)

1989: Rising Sea Levels will Obliterate Nations if Nothing Done by 2000

1989: New York City's West Side Highway Underwater by 2019 (it's not)

1996: Peak Oil in 2020

2000: Children Won't Know what Snow Is

2002: Famine In 10 Years If We Don't Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy

2002: Peak Oil in 2010

2004: Britain will Be Siberia by 2024

2005: Manhattan Underwater by 2015

2006: Super Hurricanes!

2008: Arctic will Be Ice Free by 2018

2008: Climate Genius Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2013

2009: Climate Genius Prince Charles Says we Have 96 Months to Save

World

2009: UK Prime Minister Says 50 Days to 'Save The Planet From Catastrophe'

2009: Climate Genius Al Gore Moves 2013 Prediction of Ice-Free Arctic to

2014

2013: Arctic Ice-Free by 2015

2014: Only 500 Days Before 'Climate Chaos

2019: Hey Greta, we need you to convince them it's really going to happen this time!

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Dec 3, 2023Liked by Santa Barbara Current

2007: Santa Barbara Mayor Helene Schneider's Blue Line

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Dec 3, 2023Liked by Santa Barbara Current

yes, I remember…really sad that the CCP has nearly completed their long-range plan to infiltrate and gain control of our levers of power, which they started in the early eighties…they followed the playbook of China’s Cultural Revolution…they have now captured all 3 branches of our federal government and most all of our state and local governments…

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Dec 3, 2023Liked by Santa Barbara Current

Just so we keep open lines of communication while sharing differing perspectives: it is my personal belief blaming "communists" is an unproductive deflection. Concentrating on local matters (city, county, state) affects change. Case in point: Editor Buckley starting SB Currents allows differing local perspectives to be shared....... yet again.

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Dec 3, 2023Liked by Santa Barbara Current

point taken…however, my belief is that the CCP+WEF has overtaken our country and the best way to combat is to first identify and expose our enemies…God Bless

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Dec 2, 2023Liked by Santa Barbara Current

I wish to collective thank all of you for your great comments and support. The looming question is how to wake up the indoctrinated to use their brains instead of their emotions?

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What drives their emotions?

Is "climate change" a modern surrogate for the age-old grappling with one's own mortality. The common message seems to be "we are all gonna die!". Well, yes. The immortal human challenge is knowing when, where and how.

Does belief in "climate change" temporarily assuage this deeper existential fear?

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Dec 2, 2023Liked by Santa Barbara Current

This whole climate warming thing is a bunch of hooey, and you’re correct about the Commie-Dems using it to gather more rules, control, regulations and funding. But I don’t blame them - I blame the dopes who keep putting them back in office. It’s bad enough these morons are spending our hard-earned money on ineffectual wind and solar fantasies, but demanding that manufacturers restrict the water flow of new toilets, dishwashers, washing machines etc. is just plain lunacy. We have plenty of water - where does it say having to run these machines 2 - 3 times to get the job done makes any sense? And don’t get me started on EV’s, gas stoves etc.

The Commie-Dems remind me of the old story about the the snake and the frog. The snake said to the frog ‘Hop on - I’ll give you a ride across the creek” But the frog said - “I don’t know . . . I don’t trust you.” So the snake said, “Don’t worry, I promise not to eat you” so the frog jumped on the snark’s back and the snake took him across the pond. When they got to the other side the snake grabbed the frog. The frog said - “Hey, you promised not to eat me!” and the snake said ‘Sorry, I’m a snake - that’s what snakes do” and he gobbled up the frog.

Believe anything Crook Biden or any of the other Commie-Dems promise? Ha! Go ahead . . if you too want to be gobbled up too!

Earl Brown

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Unusual to see such good sense emanating from uber-green, politically correct Santa Barbara.

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An excellent commentary on the truth and on the folly of humans.

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I always thought that to believe that humans caused climate change is to be egotistical at the very least and indoctrinated at the most ridiculous levels.

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Another good point is that no one knows the ideal temperature of Earth.

England used to have plenty of vineyards and the Arctic used to have lush vegetation.

A warmer climate will not necessarily flood the Earth. On the contrary, the released moisture from the poles would enter the atmosphere and bring more rain to arid environments, increasing their ability to grow more food. And the increased plant life will consume more carbon dioxide and produce more oxygen. Global warming is a win-win.

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The Great Courses has an excellent series for the lay person called "How the Earth Works" - a university geologist reviews the history of this planet from its inception and works his way up from the iron core to the fluid magma layer upon which the tectonic plates rest to the very thin biosphere top layer where we exist and impact superficially. What is claimed to be human-caused climate" change" is, according to this instructor, really a function of volcanos, ocean currents, and sunspots all well outside our present human control. "Civilization exists only with the permission of geologic forces" truly comes home after taking this courses. Also a reminder geologic time and geologic change just does not happen...... "in the next twelve years".

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